Photograph taken after my 100 mile
Century ride in Yosemite, CA on May 13, 1989.

The Rudge is a Light Roadster model
built in 1885 by Daniel Rudge & Co. of Coventry, England. It has a 54 inch
driver and a 17 inch trailer and weighs only 38 pounds. It has a George Townsend
saddle made in London, England, in 1887.

The Rudge has tangential spokes, ball
bearing to the front driver and rear trailer, hollow tapered tubing, hollow
felloes (rims), cow horn handlebars with spade grips, Rudge's famous ball
pedals, and a Harrington step. It has a spoon brake applied to the front wheel
which has a solid red Indian rubber tire as does the rear wheel.

The Rudge originally cost
$132.50 in
1885.

I purchased the Rudge in 1987 from a
bicycle collector in Concord, Massachusetts. It had been ridden previously on
the Wheelmen 700 mile Philadelphia Centenary Run in 1976.

I have been a member of
The Wheelmen
since 1980. The Wheelmen is a bicycle club dedicated to the preservation,
history, and riding of antique cycles. I am also a member of The
Veteran Cycle Club of England. I have ridden in
Ghent, Belgium, - Peterborough, England, - Edinburgh and Dumfriesshire, Scotland.